Years of Empowering Webinar: Duration 3 Hours 37 Teachers Exploring innovative methods and approaches: Task-based Teaching & Learning

The long history of teaching methods and approaches, primarily concerned with finding more effective methods of language teaching, has recently witnessed a TARGET AUDIENCE: shift from a preoccupation with ‘methods’ to “a more complex view of language All Teachers, Coordinators, Principals and Heads teaching which encompasses a multi-faceted understanding of the teaching and learning processes: a “focus on pedagogy”. Originally, methods were considered ‘top-down impositions’ of experts’ views of teaching and the role of the individual teacher was minimized. Now, things have changed and teachers’ function seems to be valued more than in the past. Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is closely connected to communicative language teaching, it focuses on learners’ Facilitator: Lucilla Lopriore needs and on making learners interact through authentic tasks in the target language. TBLT emerges as one of the most appropriate approaches in foreign Webinar Moderator: Dr. Bushra Ahmed Khurram language learning, mainly because of the emphasis laid upon: • learning to communicate through interaction, • the use of authentic texts, • the learning process, • learners’ own personal experiences, • linking classroom language learning with language use outside the classroom, • learners’ involvement in authentic language search and use outside the traditional coursebook language input, • the need to take the outside world into the classroom in order to involve Date: March 20, 2021 learners in real life interactions. Language teachers are interested in developing tasks that help learners learn (i.e. produce language that will stay with them and will be later used in meaningful ways and contexts). Webinar participants will be Time: 3:00pm – 6:00pm introduced to the notion of authenticity, pivotal in TBLT because learners’ personal experience in the classroom should be closely connected with what happens outside the classroom, in the real world, where they are often being exposed to and use varieties of authentic English.

References Fee: Bygate, M., Skehan, P., Swain, M. (eds.) (2001). Researching Pedagogic Tasks, Second Language Language Learning, Teaching and Testing, Harlow, Longman, 2001. For Member: PKR 2000/ Ellis, R., (2003). Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Non Member: PKR 2500/ Nunan, D., (1989). Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Skehan, P., (1998b). “Task-based instruction”, in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 18: 268-86. Willis, J., (1996). A Framework for Task-based learning, Harlow, Addison Wesley Longman Limited. Lucilla Lopriore, full professor in English linguistics and E-Certificate will be provided translation, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Roma Tre University. MA TEFL, Reading, UK; PhD Italian L2, Siena for Foreigners University. TESOL Intl. Board Limited seats on first come, first served basis of Directors (2001-2004), TESOL Intl. Research Professional Council Chair. ELLiE project (2006-2010) and ENRICH Erasmus+KA2 Project (2018-2021) Italian national coordinator. Course-book writer (GE & ESP) and teacher educator, her fields of interest are: Teacher Education, Assessment & Evaluation, Early Language Learning, Multilingualism, Mediation, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), Italian L2, CLIL. She has published extensively in the above fields of interest. [email protected]

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